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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brachypterygius is a genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from England and European Russia. Brachypterygius was named by Friedrich von Huene in 1922 and the type species is therefore Brachypterygius extremus. The holotype of B. extremus is known from Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic of Kimmeridge Clay, area of Bath, England. McGowan, 1976 named a new genus of ichthyosaur, Grendelius mordax from Kimmeridgian stage of Kimmeridge Clay, Norfolk. In 1997, McGowan described additional specimens of the same taxon from the Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, and referred it to a species of Brachypterygius. Efimov, 1998 named a new genus of ichthyosaur, Otschevia pseudoscythia on the basis of a single specimen (the holotype) from the Pseudoscythia Zone (late Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic) of Ulyanovsk, Volga region, Russia. Later, Arkangelsky, 1998 described Brachypterygius zhuravlevi from a Tithonian-stage locality in Saratov, Russia. Maisch & Matzke, 2000 considered both russian taxa to be synonyms of each other, and referred the new combination B. pseudoscythius to Brachypterygius.

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